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Urvrra STATES HENRY G. ROTH, OF MINNEPOLIS, MINNESOTA.

DISPLAY-FIXTURE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 678,689, dated July 16, 1901.

Application led Ianuary 24, 1901. Serial No. 44,553. (No model.)

T0 @ZZ whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY G. ROTH,- a citizen of the United States, residing at Minneapolis, in the county of Hennepin and State of Minnesota, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in DisplavFixtures; and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the inven-A tion, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same. Y

Mypresentinvention relates to wall displayfixtures for use in retail stores and other places, and has for its object to improve the saine in the several particulars hereinafter noted. i

To these ends the invention consists of the novel devices and combinations of devices hereinafter described, and defined in the claims.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanying drawings,wherein like characters indicate like parts throughout the several views.

Figure 1 is a plan view of a section of the display-fixture. Fig. 2 is a front elevation of the same,some parts being broken away. Fig. 3 is a side elevation ofthe said section of xture. Fig. 4 is avertical section on the line 004 x4 of Fig. 1. Fig. 5 is a view in side elevation of a modified construction of the tixture. Fig. 6 is a plan View showing a portion of the spring=platejvhich constitutes a part of the n xture. Fig. 7 is a detail in side elevation, showing one of the side plates of the fixture; and Fig. 8 is a view in side elevation, showing the several sections of the fixture taken apart and assembled side by side.

The preferred construction is illustrated in Figs. 1 to fi, inclusive, and will be first described.

The numeral 1 indicates a vertically-disposed rectangular box or frame having open ends and adapted to be secured to the wall by one or more nails a' or other suitable devices. Another box-like section 2 telescopes into the boxsection 1 and is adapted to be vertically adjusted therein and held wherever set, as shown, by set-screws 3. The back of the box 2 is cut away at 4, and wit-.hin the same a plurality of rollers 5 are mounted in any suitable way. On the rollers 5 curtains 6 are rolled. given different colors, and their lower edges are cut on different lines, so that they coperate to form various designs-such, for instance, as shown in Fig. 2. The said. curtains 6 are adapted to be drawn down over the wall to form an ornamental background. l

The horizontally-extended block 9 is seL cured to the upper portion of the outer boxsection 1, as best shown in Figs. 3 and.. This block 9 has both vertical and horizontal seats 10, and in these seats, respectively, vertically and horizontally adjustable slides or arms 11 are mounted to work. The said arms 11 are adj ustably held wherever set by Ameans of short nutted bolts 12, that Work through slots 13 in said slides and through suitable perforations in the said block. At their outer ends the slides 1 1 are provided with stops 13,formed by projecting lugs. The numeral 15 indicates a normally fiat plate, preferably of spring metal, which is adapted to be sprung to form a concave or convex cylindrical surface and to be held in such form when secured between the obliquely-spaced stop-lugs 14 of said adjustable slides 11, as shown in Figs. 3 and il.

It is evident that by proper adjustments of the slides 11 the amount of curve given the spring-plate 15 may be varied and that the said plate may be thrown either nearer to a horizontal or to a vertical plane than shown in Figs. 3 and 4. It is of course evident that in order to hold the plate curved the said slides must be so adjusted that the distance between their stops 14. is less than the width of the said spring-plate. It is is also evident that by telescoping the section 2 more or less into the section 1 the width of the border adorded bythe exposed portion of said section 2 may be varied at -will, within the prescribed limits, of course.

In the construction illustrated in Figs. 5 to 8, inclusive, a box-like section 16 is suitably secured lto the wall, and a pair of parallel side plates 2 are detachably secured thereto. This is shown as accomplished by the engagement of laterally offset tongues 1S on said plates 17 with slits 19 in the sides ol said boX-section 16. The outer edges of thc side plates 17 are curved, as shown at 20, and at the extremities of said curved surfaces The curtains 6 are preferably IOO they are provided with cooperating stop-slugs 21. The spring-plate 22 is adapted to be sprung into position and held between the lugs 21, either asin'dicated byfull lines or by dotted lines in Fig. 5. To hold the upper ends of the plates 17 against lateral displacement, the engaging edge of the plate 22 is notched, as shown at 23 in Fig. G, and the cooperating ends of said plates 17 are slightly offset, as best indicated in Fig. El.V As is evident from the foregoing description, both of the devices above described are in the nature of knockdown constructions. The manner in which the parts of the latter-described ixture may be taken apart is best illustrated in Fig. 8.

It will of course be understood that the invention above described is capable of many modifications other than thosevindicated in the accompanying drawings.

Vhat I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is as follows:

l.. A wall display-fixture having obliquelyspaced stops, certain of which are adjustable with respect to others, and a spring-plate adapted to be sprung between said stops and thereby held in curved form, substantially as described.

2. A wall display-fixture comprising a corner-block, vertically and horizontally adj nstable slides or arms securable thereto, stops at the ends of said slides, and a plate detachably securable between the said stops, sub- 1 stantially as described.

cally and horizontally projecting stop-arms, certain of which are adjustable, and a springplate reacting against the outer portion of said stop-arms, the curve of which springplate may be varied by the adjustment of said movable stop arm or arms, substantially as described.

4. In a wall display-iixture, the combination with the corner-block 9, With seats 10, of the slides 11 provided at their outer ends with the stop-lugs 14 and adjnstably mounted in said seats 10, and devices for locking said slides 11 to said block 9, substantially as described.

5. A Wall display-xture having telescopically extensible parts, substantially as vdescribed.

6. A wall display-fixture comprising a relatively-fixed upper and outer shell or section, and a telescopically-depending inner section, substantially as described.

7. A Wall display-ixture comprising a relatively-fixed upper and outer shell or section provided With a plate cutting off the angle between the Wall and the ceiling,and the depending Wall -section telescoping into said fixed shell or section, and secnrable in difierent adjustments,substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I afix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

HENRY G. ROTH.

lVitnesses:

MABEL M. MCGRORY, F. D. MERCHANT. 

